Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Jeff Green writes ("Re: 60 gig drive"): >Assuming it is a scsi drive I know of no problems, we have several raid >arrays which Linux sees as single disks. I believe the largest single >partition we have in use is 240GB though this now uses ReiserFS as >running fsck on an ext2

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-12 Thread Robert Waldner
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to >> boot off the disk. make a small /boot-partition at the beginning of the drive, so you can put your kernel there (it should fit entirely into the 1st 1024 cylinders), and you should be off fi

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: > The drive (from dmesg): > hda: WDC WD153AA-00BAA0, 14679MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1871/255/63, (U)DMA > > So what's up with my box? *Am* I just getting really lucky that this > works? Am I likely to get bit in the ass by this some day? Or is the > new lilo reall

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to > boot off the disk. > > does yer MB/bios support such a beast(if its ide?) I'm not so sure that really matters anymore. I've a 15 gig (well, actually more like 14.5 gigs, but close enough) driv

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering > what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be As we've been discussing lately large hard drives can cause a ruckus with older disk utilities. In some cases your BI

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Jeff Green
I have never used an IDE drive of this size with any form of Linux, sorry. Jeff Debian Ghost wrote: > > Actually I was thinking of an internal EIDE, not scsi. > > Would EIDE pose a problem? > > Thanks for your reply! > > D. Ghost

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd be more concerned with the bios then linux, especially if you plan to boot off the disk. does yer MB/bios support such a beast(if its ide?) nate On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: debian >Hello Debianers, debian >I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering what

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Debian Ghost
Actually I was thinking of an internal EIDE, not scsi. Would EIDE pose a problem? Thanks for your reply! D. Ghost

Re: 60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Jeff Green
Assuming it is a scsi drive I know of no problems, we have several raid arrays which Linux sees as single disks. I believe the largest single partition we have in use is 240GB though this now uses ReiserFS as running fsck on an ext2fs partition that size takes a stupidly long time. Jeff Debian Gh

60 gig drive

2000-10-11 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello Debianers, I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be able to have one large 60 gig partition or would I have to break it up into several smaller partitions? Thanks in advance! D. Ghos